Ontology of Global Storage: Canonical Order and Naming

This work formulates a closed ontology of global storage, grounded in canonical order and global naming.It explicitly separates ontological structure from epistemic and implementation-level conditions such as local failure, partial visibility, replication lag, and unavailability. At the global level, a stored object is identified by a globally unique name.Truth is determined by a non-divergent canonical order of admissible operations over that name.Failure, degraded modes, partial states, and divergent histories are excluded from the ontology of storage and treated instead as conditions of observation or local realization. The ontology specifies its primitive commitments explicitly—names, operations, admissible histories, horizons, and horizon-dependent interpretation—and is shown to be complete, internally consistent, and minimal with respect to its declared domain. By fixing the ontological foundations of global storage independently of local execution mechanisms, this work provides a scale-invariant conceptual framework.Issues of replication, redundancy, recovery, and fault tolerance are acknowledged as essential engineering concerns but are treated as belonging to the ontology of local storage, addressed separately.